Networks Are Hard-Wired For Convention Politics

摘要

Although Pundits are bemoaning a disconnect between the two major parties that has polarized the American political landscape, one of the biggest technical advances in the coverage of the upcoming Republican and Democratic con- ventions will mean better connectivity, with increased fiber and IP bandwidth that will improve the quality of the network feeds. ABC, for example, will have triple the bandwidth it had in 2008 running between the conventions and its New York City control rooms, reports Brian Kennedy, executive director of news-gathering operations at ABC News. During the Democratic National Convention Sept. 4-6 in Charlotte, N.C., the additional bandwidth will allow ABC News on most nights to bring back all of its camera feeds from the venues over fiber links to its control rooms in New York, Kenne-